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Re: Design Questions for MingW libjava 3.4 Refactoring
- From: Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>
- To: Michael Koch <konqueror at gmx dot de>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:14:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: Design Questions for MingW libjava 3.4 Refactoring
- Reply-to: gnustuff at thisiscool dot com
Hi Michael,
>Sorry for the delay. The answer is that this stuff has to be totally
>rewritten. The plan is to put a method for selecting into
>java.io.FileDescriptor that does all the magic. Then all native files
>will be gone in gnu.java.nio for 3.4 (perhaps we have to use some to
>access package-private methods in other packages .... but we dont
>need platform specific native code.
Thanks for your answer. So, if the goal is to eliminate all platform-specific
code from java.nio, is the plan to also put things like native memory mapped
I/O methods in FileDescriptor?
-- Mohan
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